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Vista Ultimate Update Lock-up

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Can anyone help with Vista Update downloads preventing booting up Vista Ultimate.

Have been running Vista Ultimate (upgrade) for over a year with regular update downloads, with only minor teething problems, til last week when Vista locked on 'Configuring Updates/Shutting Down' cycle when booting up.

The screen display is:

'Configuring Updates : Stage 3 of 3 - 0% Completed'

followed (after approx 10 secs ) by 'Shutting down' being screened, and the computer shutting down.

Without going into detail, I have tried with the Vista installation disc to use both the 'Repair' and 'Install Now' options without success and had 2 long time-wasting phone calls to MS customer support - all without success.

Obviously, I wish to recover my previous version but would settle to re-install Vista Ultimate.

Great result in minutes, especially after knocking my head against the wall this past week.

Info for others in similar difficulties : Three methods were given to solve the Vista Ultimate lock-out, the last (Method 3) being the one that did the trick in my case.

A cautionary word of advice for anyone using Method 3 for the first time if you are using a partitioned drive. I discovered having Vista Ultimate installed on a partitioned drive (not C) that it is necessary to modify the Method 3 command statements (obvious of course!) in accordance with the relevant drive letter which Vista is installed on.

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